Francoise Delplancke,1 Frédéric Derie,1 Samuel Lévêque,1 Serge Ménardi,1 Roberto Abuter,1 Luigi Andolfato,1 Pascal Ballester,1 Jeroen de Jong,1 Nicola Di Lieto,1 Philippe Duhoux,1 Robert Frahm,1 Philippe Gitton,1 Andreas Glindemann,1 Ralf Palsa,1 Florence Puech,1 Johannes Sahlmann,1 Nicolas Schuhler,1 Thanh Phan Duc,1 Bruno Valat,1 Anders Wallander1
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PRIMA, the Phase-Referenced Imaging and Micro-arcsecond Astrometry facility for the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, is now nearing the end of its manufacturing phase. An intensive test period of the various sub-systems (star separators, fringe sensor units and incremental metrology) and of their interactions in the global system will start in Garching as soon as they are delivered. The status and performances of the individual sub-systems are presented in this paper as well as the proposed observation and calibration strategy to reach the challenging goal of high-accuracy differential astrometry at 10 μas level.
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Francoise Delplancke, Frédéric Derie, Samuel Lévêque, Serge Ménardi, Roberto Abuter, Luigi Andolfato, Pascal Ballester, Jeroen de Jong, Nicola Di Lieto, Philippe Duhoux, Robert Frahm, Philippe Gitton, Andreas Glindemann, Ralf Palsa, Florence Puech, Johannes Sahlmann, Nicolas Schuhler, Thanh Phan Duc, Bruno Valat, Anders Wallander, "PRIMA for the VLTI: a status report," Proc. SPIE 6268, Advances in Stellar Interferometry, 62680U (27 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.660395